The California tech giant Google Inc. has announced a new research project named ‘Project Tango’ on Thursday, aiming to bring 3D technology to smartphones for developing potential applications like indoor mapping, gaming and helping visually impaired people to navigate. Google also said that Project Tango will provide prototypes to other developers to develop new and interesting application from this new technology.
Project leader Johnny Lee says that this project incorporates robotics and vision processing technology which will give human-scale understanding to a smartphone. The device (Smartphone) used in this project is equipped with sensors which measures 1.4 million measurements per second addition to this it also updates the position and rotation of the phone. 3D sensing chip ‘Myraid 1’ is packed inside the phone having low power consumption of few hundred milliwatts which is bearable by a smartphone battery, ‘Myraid 1’ is a revolutionary chip because of its low power consumption whereas ‘Primesense’ chip used in Microsoft’s Original Kinect draws a lot of power about 1 watt which is not suitable for Mobile phone battery.
Project leader Johnny Lee says that this project incorporates robotics and vision processing technology which will give human-scale understanding to a smartphone. The device (Smartphone) used in this project is equipped with sensors which measures 1.4 million measurements per second addition to this it also updates the position and rotation of the phone. 3D sensing chip ‘Myraid 1’ is packed inside the phone having low power consumption of few hundred milliwatts which is bearable by a smartphone battery, ‘Myraid 1’ is a revolutionary chip because of its low power consumption whereas ‘Primesense’ chip used in Microsoft’s Original Kinect draws a lot of power about 1 watt which is not suitable for Mobile phone battery.
source:crazyengineers
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